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As Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith Hit the Road
Episode 304
Tracy K. Smith was named Poet Laureate, in 2017, right after the most divisive election of our time. She could have spent her two-year appointment wr…
6 years, 6 months ago
Valeria Luiselli on Reënacting the Border
Episode 303
Valeria Luiselli first travelled to the U.S.–Mexico border in 2014, when the current immigration crisis began to heat up. Under the Trump Presidency,…
6 years, 6 months ago
Emily Nussbaum Likes to Watch
Episode 302
For decades, critical praise for a TV show was that it was “not like TV,” but more like a novel or a movie. That ingrained hierarchy always bugged Em…
6 years, 6 months ago
The Trump Administration’s Plan to Deport Victims of Human Trafficking
Episode 301
The New Yorker contributor Jenna Krajeski recently met with a woman who calls herself Esperanza. In her home country, Esperanza was coerced and threa…
6 years, 6 months ago
Dexter Filkins on the Dangerous Escalations between the U.S. and Iran
Episode 300
After a U.S. drone was allegedly shot down by Iran last week, relations between Tehran and Washington are again approaching a low point; on Thursday,…
6 years, 6 months ago
David Remnick Talks with Robert Caro about “Working”
Episode 299
Robert Caro is a historical biographer unlike anyone else writing today, with the Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and other honors to prove it…
6 years, 6 months ago
Will the Government Get Tough on Big Tech?
Episode 298
Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (which owns Google), and Facebook—known in the tech world as the Big Four—are among the largest and most profitable companies…
6 years, 7 months ago
From Stonewall to the Present, Fifty Years of L.G.B.T.Q. Rights
Episode 297
Masha Gessen co-hosts this episode of the New Yorker Radio Hour, guiding David Remnick through the fifty years of civil-rights gains for L.G.B.T.Q. p…
6 years, 7 months ago
Ava DuVernay on “When They See Us,” About the Boys Who Became the Central Park Five
Episode 296
Ava DuVernay doesn’t like using the term Central Park Five—a moniker created by the press in the aftermath of the notorious and brutal assault of a t…
6 years, 7 months ago
Emily Nussbaum on TV’s “Deluge” of #MeToo Plots
Episode 295
The #MeToo movement of recent years started in the entertainment industry, with revelations about moguls such as Harvey Weinstein and CBS’s Les Moonv…
6 years, 7 months ago